Christine Vachon, Rose Troche, Bruce LaBruce Among the 150 in IFP’s Project ForumNew projects from Christine Vachon, Bruce LaBruce, David Robert Mitchell (“The Myth of the American Sleepover”), and Rose Troche are among the 150 that made the cut for this year’s Project Forum, hosted by IFP during Independent Film Week (September 18-22) at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center.

LOCARNO REVIEW | Why Julia Loktev’s “The Loneliest Planet” Earns Its Leisurely PaceIn “Day Night Day Night,” Julia Loktev told the quietly experimental tale of a young would-be suicide bomber nervously wandering through the crowd of Times Square, impressing some critics if not much of an audience beyond that. Her long-awaited follow-up, “The Loneliest Planet,” deals with noticeably broader terrain and even includes a mid-size star (Gael Garcia Bernal). Both of those factors yield something closer to a conventional viewing experience than the intentionally prosaic momentum of her previous outing.

First Look At ‘American Psycho’ Director Mary Harron’s “The Moth Diaries”It has been six years since we’ve heard from Mary Harron, at least on the big screen. The director who made waves with the one-two knockout of “I Shot Andy Warhol” and “American Psycho” stumbled with the workmanlike and disappointing “The Notorious Bettie Page” and spent the next few years largely working in television.